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The German captured by talibs is seriously ill and asks for help

27 August 2007

The private Afghani broadcasting company has shown video-record on which the German engineer taken hostage by radical Islamic movement Taliban asks to help him.
The item shows the engineer-builder from Germany Rudolf Blehschmidt laying on a bed sheet on a floor. He speaks, having clasped himself with hands, and frequently coughs.
On July, 18 Blehschmidt and one more German engineer were kidnapped in Vardak province in the south of Afghanistan. Four days later his colleague died because of heart attack, and his body was found by the local authorities.
Talibs assert that they have killed two German hostages as official Berlin has refused to fulfill their demand to withdraw 3 thousand soldiers from Afghanistan.
However the Afghani Ministry of Foreign Affairs has declared that according to their information, one of German engineers is alive.
The film has been shown by Afghani TV-channel Tolo TV, and the German hostage spoke English. The channel did not inform, from whom it has received the record. It is also unknown when it has been made.



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